Towel cabinet



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unirse stares y o Mgmt@ PATENT @FFQQ FRANK M. STETNER, OFMINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, .ASSIGNOR T lSTEINER SALES COMPANY, OF SZLT LAKE CITY, UTAH, A CORPORATION OF UTAH.

TOWEL CABINET.

Application filed October 16, 1920. Serial No. 417,466.

To all wwm t 'may concern.'

Be it known that 1, FRANK M. STEINER, a citizen of the United States, resident of Minneapolis, county of -Hennepin, S'tatepof Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Tmprovements in Towel Cabinets, of'

which the following is a specification.

rliowel cabinets as ordinarily constructed include rolls, gears and springs of various kinds necessary for the feeding or delivery of the towel to the user. Obviously the addition of all these parts' to a towel .cabinet not only greatly increases its initial cost but adds to the upkeep of the cabinet and l5 the time required for removing the soiled toweling and substituting a clean one therefor. Devices of this kind to be adopted universallymust be simple in construction and inexpensive to manufacture and easily cared for. f

rlhe object, therefore, of my invention is to provide a cabinet from which all rolls, gears and the like, are eliminated.

A further object is to provide a cabinet so simplified in construction that it can not possibly get out of order and cannot be made inoperative, even by the most ignorant caretaker.

A further object is to provide a cabinet which will be clean and sanitary under all conditions andvwill thoroughly protect the clean toweling from dust and dirt.

The invention consists generally in various constructions and combinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through a towel cabinet embodying my invention,

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same. v lin the drawing, 2 represents the top of the cabinet having end walls 3 and vertical flanges 4 provided with holes 5 to receive screws or the like for securing the cabinet to an upright wall. A rail. 6 connects the ends 3 across the front of the cabinet and the top 2 has a depending lip 7 at the front and a wide depending wall 8 at the rear. rlhis wall 8 is preferably formed of a depending continuation of the metal top 2 of the container and terminates in an outwardly bent lower edge 9, the wall being folded in slightly out of contact with the support on which the cabinet is mounted.` The depending wall has sufficient spring or tension to yieldingly resist pressure on the inner face thereof. A container for the towel roll is fitted into the opening in the front of the cabinet and consists of a lower wall orfioor 10 upon which the roll of towel is placed, an upwardly extending wall 11 at the rear and a wall 12 at the front connecting the ends of the container and forming a door for the cabinet. These ends 13 are preferably of greater depth at the front and gradually decrease in depth toward the rear ofthe cabinet. The wall 11 extends above the lower edge of the wall 8 and is adapted to contact therewith when the cabinet is closed. The container is hinged within the cabinet by means of pivotpins 14 and a latch device 15 is provided near the upper edge ofthe door 12 to engage the flange 7 and hold the container 1n its closed position. When this-latch is released, the container may be tilted forward to the position indicated by dotted lines in Figure 1 and when in this position the roll of toweling 16 is placed in the container. The loose end of the roll is carried over the wall 11 and allowed to depend below the cabinet and when the container is tilted to its closed posijitionl sufficient pressure will be exerted on the depending wall 8 to flex it slightly and cause it to bear on the towel with a yielding pressure suicient to hold it against premature or unnecessary feed so that when the loose end of the towel is grasped by the user, only a sufficient length for Y` use will be unrolled, the tension device resisting any unexpected or unnecessary. feed. This tension device will also prevent a complete unwindin or feeding of the towel when the weig t of the towel hanging below the cabinet is suilicient to overcome or counterbalance the weight of the towel in the roll. This spring tension device may, of course, be made independently of the cabinet and mounted on the wall in position to bear on the towel when the container is in its closed position. This, however, is an obvious modification and have not thought it necessary to illustrate it herein.

The ends of the container are preferably provided with lugs 17 which Contact with the flanged ends of the cabinet when the container is moved to its open or dotted line position, thereby reventing the container from tilting too ar. The clean towel depends below the cabinet in position to be reached by the user and as fast as used the soiled portion drops into a receptacle 18 that is placed on the Hoor beneath the cabinet.

I claim as my invention:

1. A towel cabinet comprising a casing, a towel container therein adapted to move outwardly to expose the container, a space being provided in the casing in the rear of the container to allow the feed of the towel, the loose end of the towel passing over the rear wall of the container and sliding thereon downwardly in said space when pulled by the user, and a tension device between which and said rear wall the towel is gripped.

2. A towel'cabinet comprising a casing, a towel container therein adapted to move outwardly to expose the container, a space being provided within the casing in the rear of the container to allow the feed of the towel, the loose end of the towel passing over the rear Wall of the container and sliding thereon and said casing having a depending section of its rear wall composed of spring material that is put under tension by the pressure of said rear wall thereon when the container is closed, the towel being fed between said wall and said depending section.

3. A towel holder comprising a support provided with means for securing it to the wall, the front of said support being open, a towel bolt container hinged to said support and adapted to tilt forwardly and having a lower wall to support a towel bolt and an upwardly projecting rearwall over which the loose end of the towel is adapted to slide for delivery in the rear of said container, and means for tensioning the feed of the towel over said rear wall, for the purpose specified.

4. A towel cabinet comprising a casing v composed of sheet metal having a closed top and ends walls and means for securing it to an upright support, said top having a depending rear portion folded to normally project into said casing above the bottom thereof, and a towel container adapted to receiver a roll of toweling and having a rear wall over which the loose end of the towel is adapted to slide, and said rear wall being positioned when the container is closed to exert a pressure on the depending spring portion of said casing top and put it under tension for resisting the feed of the towel from said container.

5. A towel cabinet comprising a casing, a towel container adapted to contain a roll of toweling and hinged to tilt forwardly to allow the insertion of the towel therein, said container having a rear opening through which the loose end of the towel is fed, a device arranged to grip the loose end of the towel and put under tension by the movement of said container to its closed position, and said cabinet being supportedC above the normal standing position of the user with the loose free end of the towel depending in-position to be grasped by the user.

6. A towel cabinet comprising a casing, a towel container hinged at its lower forward portion and having a chamber to receive a roll of toweling, said container having an opening in its wall through which the loose free end of the towel is fed, and being arranged above the normal standing position of the user, and a device for yieldingly resisting feed of the towel from said container, said device being made operative by the movement of said container to its closed position.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of October, 1920.

f FRANK M. STEINER. 

